Inductees 2017 - Tammy Solonec

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Tammy Solonec

Tammy Solonec is a Nigena woman, a human rights lawyer and an advocate for Indigenous people. She has worked to support Aboriginal people with law matters, justice issues, culture and the arts and housing. She is very strong on self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and advocated for this while a Director of the National Congress for Australia's First Peoples. Through her role at Amnesty International, she is working to address the high rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in detention.